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NBA Twitter reacts to Jordan Poole’s game-winner vs. Grizzlies

NBA Twitter reacts to Jordan Poole’s game-winner vs. Grizzlies

After Jordan Poole missed a deep jumper attempt early in the shot clock with the Golden State Warriors leading by two points with under two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Steph Curry appeared frustrated.  Following Poole’s miss, Curry threw his mouthpiece while running back on defense and was quickly ejected for the third time in his career. By rule, throwing anything toward the crowd triggers an ejection.  Despite his miss before Curry’s ejection, Poole got a chance at… Source link

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Musk’s Twitter faces ‘unprecedented’ rise in competitors: MIT’s Sinan Aral

Musk’s Twitter faces ‘unprecedented’ rise in competitors: MIT’s Sinan Aral

Elon Musk’s Twitter is facing a litany of challenges ranging from winning back advertisers who ditched the service to ensuring it can abide by a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreement to protect users’ privacy. And according to at least one expert, the negative attention is helping spur growth at competing platforms. “We see an unprecedented rise in competitors to Twitter,” MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Sinan Aral told Yahoo Finance Live. “We have seen an unprecedented… Source link

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Twitter appears to be blocking Google Voice numbers from SMS authentication

Twitter appears to be blocking Google Voice numbers from SMS authentication

Twitter appears to have cut off Google Voice numbers from two-factor authentication (2FA). Although it’s hardly the first company to block virtual phone numbers from SMS authentication, the change could be connected to CEO Elon Musk’s aggressive moves to snuff out bot accounts from the platform. The new behavior, reported by 9to5Google, appears to block users from using a Google Voice number to authenticate their accounts. (I tried it today, and it rejected my Google Voice number.) Further,… Source link

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Tesla stock concerns go beyond Elon Musk multitasking at Twitter: Analyst

Tesla stock concerns go beyond Elon Musk multitasking at Twitter: Analyst

There are more reasons behind Tesla’s (TSLA) plunging stock price than Elon Musk’s focus on Twitter, according to Wells Fargo auto analyst Colin Langan. “It’s very concerning about the weakness that we’re seeing in China,” Langan said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We are seeing incentives go up, and sales actually are not increasing there. And [a] driving concern is: Are we going to start seeing that in the U.S. and Europe? Is that just sort of the early days of softening demand? And… Source link

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A data scientist says Jack Dorsey told her Twitter was defenseless against a takeover by Elon Musk and the company should never have gone public

A data scientist says Jack Dorsey told her Twitter was defenseless against a takeover by Elon Musk and the company should never have gone public

Twitter owner Elon Musk and the platform’s cofounder Jack Dorsey.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Jack Dorsey said Twitter was defenseless against Elon Musk’s acquisition, per a data scientist. Emily Gorcenski said she exchanged messages with Twitter cofounder about Musk’s involvement. Dorsey said Twitter “should have never gone public” and that anyone could buy it, per Gorcenski. Jack Dorsey said Twitter had no defenses against Elon Musk acquiring the company in October, according to a data… Source link

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